If you don't look good, we don't look good....

[jack_babalon]

The beauty products from the skin of executed Chinese prisoners

Cosmetics firm targets UK market ·
Lack of regulation puts users at risk

Ian Cobain and Adam Luck
Tuesday September 13, 2005
The Guardian


A Chinese cosmetics company is using skin harvested from the corpses of executed convicts to develop beauty products for sale in Europe, an investigation by the Guardian has discovered.
Agents for the firm have told would-be customers it is developing collagen for lip and wrinkle treatments from skin taken from prisoners after they have been shot. The agents say some of the company's products have been exported to the UK, and that the use of skin from condemned convicts is "traditional" and nothing to "make such a big fuss about"...

Read the rest at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1568622,00.html


"Danger: Criminals will be prosecuted and turned into facials!"

Comments

[ozmancometh.livejournal.com]

I want my tuna dolphin-safe, and I want my facial cream (that I use to maintain my youthful appearance) corpse-free, thank you. . . It's very disturbing that the report uses the word "harvested" when referring to removing skin from the executed convicts. Whatever crime they might have committed aside, they're still human. Where's the dignity??